Description
Dakar (Plateau), Senegal: War memorial for WWI and WWII - the elaborate moorish-style French 'Monument aux Morts' was removed after the European withdrawl and replaced by this minimalist, but dignified, memorial bearing the inscription 'To our dead, the grateful fatherland', leaving undifined which fatherland is grateful - Independence Square, formerly Admiral Auguste-Léopold Protet square.